About Little Big Stuff

We’re Little Big Stuff Music

We are out to deliver the highest-quality musicals for kids that are honoring to God, fun for kids, and have life-changing Gospel impact on our world. What we are doing is small, and focused: great musicals for LITTLE folks with BIG impact. That’s Little Big Stuff!

We have a simple mission

Help those who work with kids music in churches and Christian schools by creating the highest-quality musicals that are fun for kids, honoring to God, and bring the life-changing gospel message of Christ to the community. If you want to impact a culture . . . start with the kids!

About Dave & Rob, the Little Big Stuff guys

David Guthrie

After more than 20 years with Word Music, David Guthrie launched the very first “church musical publisher just for kids,” Little Big Stuff Music! Dave now works alongside cohort Rob Howard, who in his 10 years at Word helped Kathie Hill and Celeste Clydesdale produce their wonderful creations for kids’ choirs. After their inaugural project Life School Musical, created with Pam Andrews, Dave and Rob now pour their creativity and professional experience into creating two new musicals for kids each year.

Though Dave has a list of credits and professional accomplishments as long as your arm, we won’t bore you with those. Instead, hear what he has to say about kids’ choir music publishing:

“Some people think I’ve reverted to my childhood, but actually, the most exciting things happening in church music today are in children’s choirs! Rob and I are firmly committed to never short-changing kids, just because they are short! We are bringing our ‘A-game’ to Little Big Stuff Music: great quality songs, great production, rock-solid Biblically sound messages. We’re committed to making our musicals extremely hip and cool, and the stories are interesting and entertaining, but full of sound Biblical truth.”

Dave and his amazing author-speaker-Bible teacher-wife Nancy are enjoying their life in Nashville, and Dave loves having son Matt now working side by side with him at Little Big Stuff.

Rob Howard

Rob Howard serves full-time as Executive Pastor, Worship and Communication at Fellowship Bible Church in Brentwood, TN. He has been involved leading and shepherding in church ministry on a full-time and part-time basis for over 20 years.

Several years ago Rob joined David Guthrie in launching Little Big Stuff Music, writing and recording kids’ musical projects that serve the church and proclaim the gospel. He loves the opportunity to create, to work with his wife as a graphic designer, and alongside his kids in the studio, but his passion for Little Big Stuff kids musicals runs much deeper:

“I still remember singing as a kid in choir ministry, ‘I am a promise, I am a possibility.’ Those words, that melody, and many others I learned have never left me. In fact, I know at certain moments in my life they came back to me and reminded me who God is, and who I am in Christ. Truth attached to a singable melody is powerful and can last a lifetime. That’s one reason I love Little Big Stuff—the opportunity for truth to get written creatively on the hearts of our next generation.”

Testimonials & Customer Notes

We love to hear from you! Keep in touch by sending us a note about your performance on the Contact page.
Below are a few notes we’ve received from director’s across the country. If you’d like to read more, visit the Testimonials Page.

Red Carpet Resources

We're here to help!

Questions about our musicals? Uncertain about what things might require permission? Not sure which products you need to purchase, or what your rights are once you've purchased them? We are available to answer your questions, and will do our very best to address your needs.

Simply click the button below to jump to our simple contact form, and we'll come running (well, figuratively, at least!). We want you and your kids to have a great experience with every Little Big Stuff musical

REPRODUCIBLE OPTIONS

Save money, enjoy more flexibility

We are happy to offer these special licensing options to make your life easier:

Reproducible Script & Lyrics

We provide you with a master file of the drama script and song lyrics (text only, no music score), and a license granting you legal permission to print copies for your kids, copy and paste into PowerPoint or other projection program to use in rehearsals and performance, print on a white board or flip chart. In fact, you can do all of these if you wish.

You tell us the total quantity of users, and you pay $2 per user regardless of whether you print out copies for them every week, or use only projection, etc. The fee is not “per copy,” but “per user.” If you pay for 25 now, and end up with 35 later, you just return here, log in to your account, and pay for the additional users. Or, if the quantity you need to add is less than the default minimum of 15 allowed by the shopping cart, please just email us at dave@littlebigstuff.com, and tell us how many more you need.

Along with the huge cost-savings, this option offers great flexibility in that you can easily edit the script, allowing you to add or subtract characters, change names, divide up parts, etc., before printing and distributing to your kids. You can also add in staging cues to fit your situation, or add your own director notes or instructions. You may also print copies to send home, print other copies to keep at church or school, print more copies to send home when the first ones are lost ;-), so that no one ever needs to be caught without their copy.

Reproducible Script & Lead Sheets

Similar to the Script & Lyrics, but the songs are single-stave vocal line scores (just like the choral book) presented in PDF files, while the drama script comes as an easy-to-edit Microsoft Word file. This also offers a tremendous cost savings at just $3.25 per user.

Reproducible Demo Recording

Burn your own CDs for just $5 per copy. We provide you with a license granting you full legal permission to either copy an existing CD (perhaps the CD that comes in the back of the Review Pack), or download the recording in MP3 format. Of course, you may prefer to purchase our Bulk CD 10-packs for $59.99 (essentially $6 per disc), or you may choose this reproducible option for $5 per copy.

In addition to the cost savings, this can provide some additional flexibility. You can opt for any quantity (5 copy minimum), and not be constrained to quantities of 10. Before burning your CD copies, you can choose exactly what you want on the copied CDs. For example, you may want to leave off the recorded drama dialog on the copies that most of the kids receive, and only include it on copies that the actors receive.

Digital Download Available

on iTunes

The complete recording
as well as individual songs
are available on
iTunes.

Click the button below or simply search
iTunes by the title of the musical.

Digital Download Available

on iTunes

The complete recording
as well as individual songs
are available on
iTunes.

Click the buttons below or simply search
each store by the title of the musical.

A Note About the Graphics

You may use these files free of charge to create web and print promotional materials for your performance. You may use these graphics to create any backdrops or set pieces, as well as activities and materials for rehearsal.

You may not use these graphics to create screen-printed shirts without further permission from us, and without paying additional licensing fees. Because we are also “in the t-shirt business,” we must license you and collect certain fees if you create your own t-shirts using our proprietary designs and graphics. Contact us at dave@littlebigstuff.com to inquire further.

NOTE: These files are provided as Adobe Illustrator PDF files. As PDF files, they can be opened and read like any PDF in Adobe Acrobat, Preview on a Mac, etc. However, as Illustrator PDFs, they have the added virtue of retaining the design “layers” when opened in Adobe Illustrator. In Illustrator, they can be edited, and can be resized to virtually any dimensions without losing quality. If you have questions about working with these Illustrator PDFs, please consult a designer who works with Adobe design programs, or consult the internet, where you can find many articles addressing this subject.